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Show AS OTHERS SEE US. Without quoting robblo Burns we all know It Is a good thing to have others tell us Just how wo look In their eyes The following candid letter, let-ter, written to the Dcnitr 1 Ield and Unrm bv a Colorado traveler cloea Ltali no liaim and ought to serve to a betteitnent of somo things mentioned men-tioned "W'o ore ill apt to think that somebody some-body else has things better thnn ourselves our-selves or that some other section of tho countr) Is moto desirable than our own The farms In the fralt Lake valley val-ley arc much sm iller thnn In Colorado nnd the houses nnd furm buildings aro correspondingly snull nnd plain-1) plain-1) built, showing much less architectural architec-tural finish and beauty Tho quarter Mictions are dlilded Into eight farms thus giving each ono twenty acres. I have alwa)s favored small farms containing con-taining fiom fnrly to ctpM) acres and tivent) acten may be enough lf fruit ginning or gardening Is pursued Where the rlnre Is dciotad snlel) to common fnim crops lin), Fraln nnd slock growing twent) ncrea makes the operations too limited for an energetic nnd ambitious furmcr. $ 'The Improiemenls on these tuent)-acr tuent)-acr farms which have beer nenle! some of them over flft) )rars are neither good nor extensive enough to satisfy a progrerslve up-to-date mer-lenn mer-lenn farmer so thnl experience would seem to show that tin nty ncres Is not enough for a. farm eien 111 an Irrigated Irri-gated countr) rho farms are dlilded New Knklancl like Into small flells frequetitl) liregulnr In shape and near-I) near-I) all haie extensive popl it plantations planta-tions which heve grown very high nnd slim shotitnr great age hut making lit tie shade and s. t too fir npirt for windbreaks for which the) n'e best ndartel Hut few other trees are to be setni outside of the largo towns and rlilea anl eien then there are more poplars and mttnniinoilB thun any other kind of shade trees Seiiihere In the entire vnllty dll I see as vigorous lit tilthy and gool-look Ing n plnntiil n of noli trees us we have at h me in our own town park and around our courlliouao nrd. Ab tho poplar Is better than no shade tree wo must concede that the: farms of the Salt Lake valley are better provided with shada thnn the average Colorado farm Ith our better variety of trees being planted here I anticipate that when our country shall have been In cultivation a.s long ns Utah has been It will be witj nhcad In thnt respect The corn crop Is mor promising than with us, showing a warmer summer climate Their fel.ls of alfalfa do not seem to nierngo an good as ours and the crops of wheat and oats arc nn better Haling passed through the vnlley frequently for the last five )ears I do not notice as much Improvement Improve-ment there on the farms ns Is to be seen In Colorado and In fact the I alley al-ley does not appear as good to me now as it did the first time I pasted through It 'Trnvo Clt) seems th" most charming charm-ing spot ln the valley next to alt I oke Cltv The winters are colder thap ours with much more snow, nnd the summers much warmer, so In tho matter mat-ter of climate I consider that of Colorado Colo-rado preferable and I nm unable to discern dis-cern any joint In which the) rxcel us Their system of irrigation Is probably ns well manageel as an) In the countr) coun-tr) hut It Is claimed that they have reaehed the limit to which It con be extended I Imagine that when their lands now becoming swamp) are drained the) will find a supply of water wa-ter for much of the lands et unused In tlmo the dralnngo problem will con-ftont con-ftont us In Colorado and even now ln tho older tattled portions ot the btate considerable seep land has been rendered ren-dered worthless until It is drained The more I travel the better I nm satisfied satis-fied that in) home la ln Colotndo which I consider the best State ln the Union |